Happy Few Days Late One Year Anniversary to the Oasis!!!! And Im Still Stuck In The Past

    Greetings to the interwebs, its the One-Eyed Nerd here again, and damn it is now 2025. Looking back at the year it has been a wild one but a good one. I in truth would never thought of sitting here celebrating a one year now in the bag of some random blog I shot up last year. Now yes it turned more into a digital diary then a blog of me just talking about random ass shit that really don’t matter, but hey nice to have an outlet. So I been having some ideas and it been a pain in ass to get working such as the guestbook, that you can see on the side (Or not if I deleted it because it did not work). Now most people would just say ”Just get on X and you can have all the people you want listening and sniffing your own farts”.

    Now to that I say, I don’t because I am stubborn and there is to many people not to mention it sounds more a damn hen house with someone who left the TV on that’s blasting the View on a 24 hour loop. Yes I could make an account to market this place, then say something that pisses someone off and get doxed. Now sure that was an extreme example, but you never know and I don’t have as much cool shit to tinker with on social media. On Twitter you cant have GIFs everywhere or have an embedded jukebox that can play music videos from YouTube. I wonder if I could have Flash here oh wait that was killed off. (Why don’t we have the cool stuff anymore?)

    That’s what I feel keeps coming up, there is no freedom on the big sites. It all sanitized to hell and back with no user control. But that’s life I guess, it starts as a small town with a side of anarchy and lax rules then everyone and their corporate bootlickers move in and you know the rest. (Insert the Irony of a blog on Google’s servers) If I heard right MySpace had more freedom then the sites nowadays. Let not forget sites are not made for the desktop anymore. What happened to that anyway? In the 2000s there was a computer in almost every home in the USA, and how to use it was taught in schools. Now it all overpriced phones that get this, cost more then a high end PC. How the hell did that happened?

    Anyway how about some good news, I found a good idea for a sort of chat box thing, and I could start up a BBS forum of sorts or a IRC. Not sure if it would be used but hey a nerd can dream. Other then that, it should be it so let’s end it here with our tradition. Here is Congratulation Song By Corrosion Of Conformity off their 2000s album America's Volume Dealer. Well that's all folks until next time, this is the One-Eyed Nerd signing off. 

 

 

 

Everyone is on Digital Speed and The Idea of The Digital Fun House Mirror

    Greetings to the interwebs, it’s the One-Eyed Nerd here again. It is that time of year again with the weather getting cold with December on it’s way and to a New Year as well. Speaking of New Years, it is crazy that it is about to be 2025, isn’t that something? All them old movies and shows from years ago that depicted 2025 as the future with flying cars and people replacing their brains with a cyborg implants and fake memories, until some hacker hacks into them and they find out it is all fake. Wait a second this seems familiar but from where hmm? 

    Well it will come to me at some point, but that got me thinking from watching old Sci-Fi flicks and you would think that we could never get there, you then look after a few years have passed you by and there it is. All my life I heard, "when you get older life gets slower",well I think it's the opposite or is it? Now I feel it depends but here in the 21st century I do feel time seems to fly by faster because we are always hooked to something. No I'm not saying it’s the Internet's fault but I want to explain why I do blame our culture. 

    To elaborate on this, look at how people act nowadays. There used to be a subculture or counter culture, from the hippies and punks to weebs and emos, but most of it was that generation's rebellion. However looking onto the generation now with social media, and something start to rear it’s ugly face. Most of the time each generation has about one of two sub cultures or counter cultures that last around a decade or however long. But with the new generation you barely see that to a point it seems a new subculture is made each year and the old one dies out like it was nothing, or in a week it seems sometimes. With a culture that is on overdrive 24/7 is makes since to think people are on speed, or it is just a small digital Fun House Mirror?

    If you look at the, let’s call it the Fun House Mirror Culture, everything seem over exaggerated to an extreme degree. For example most social media that involves a more visual look into someone’s life like Facebook on Instagram. On these platforms, you are not going to see reality but reality ran through many filters to make it look like something it is not. Add in a system of mass production and it makes the world seem like it is on turbo all the time.

    Lets talk about fads for a sec. So look at all the fads of the past years and or what was popular on the web, and see how in that same time it went out like a honeysuckle. It smells great, it looks divine, and the taste is rich as gold, then nothing. Just like that, it is over right as you set your eye on it, sort of like disco (But disco is 50 times better then any fad of the last few years). Now take any fad and run it through the fun house mirror, now add the clown who keeps saying,"It is real, all of what you see is real, everything is like this, you are looking at "real life"." The way the internet warps what is real to push ideas, make bank off it, then add on the fads with diminishing rates, that changes every week, and you are running through that fun house on speed, with the suits, and influencers that look more like clowns, trying to sell you on the next big thing.

    So you have what seems to be an endless hall at this point, one that never ends or so that what they want you to think..You don't have to play the game and get sucked in nor do you have to have your prospective on life distorted because the Internet is telling you this is the "real life". If you are running around thinking the world is ending and can't escape that endless hallway, turn around and go the way you came. Now the world may not be as well, calm most of the time, but it sure as hell is better then krusty and his hall of misery loving clowns. At this point it is better to leave the park entirety. To quote Bender from Futurama "I'm going to build my own theme park! With blackjack! And hookers! You know what -forget the park!" (That's a joke son, I say that's a joke)

    Alright time to end it here before this thing start to look like a damned APA paper. That is all I got folks, now to end it here with the Oasis favorite thing, some good solid gold music. Here is Time Marches On by Tracy Lawrence from his 1996 album of the same name. (the 2004 remaster because I could not just find the original song in audio) This is the One-Eyed Nerd saying good night and raise your red solo cup to a brand new year. This is the One-Eyed Nerd signing off, and see you in the next year, So Long Space Cowboy.